“Boko Haram” is some group somewhere in Africa doing something wrong while claiming to be Islamic. That’s about as much I knew or cared to know when I heard the news of some school girls being kidnapped. Not that I’m unsympathetic, but I didn’t much think it had […]
Dinosaurs, they capture the imagination, and have been creatures humans have always taken a great interest to. There seems to be something fascinating about dinosaurs, from their enormous sizes, and to their behaviour. Now from an Islamic perspective, where do dinosaurs come in? The Quran and hadiths say […]
Critics of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) often bring up his caravan raids against the Makkans as a means to attack him; they argue that these caravan raids made the Prophet Muhammad a ‘bandit’ and a ‘thief’ amongst many other accusations. The caravan raids by the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) […]
Many have asked the interesting question ‘what is the Quran’s relationship with previous scriptures?’. This question can be answered by the Quran itself: And unto thee O Prophet have We vouchsafed this divine writ, setting forth the truth, confirming the truth of whatever there still remains of earlier revelations […]
Modern day terrorism carried out by Muslims belonging to organizations like Al-Qaeda, or Al-Qaeda affiliated groups, has a context behind them. These groups often list their grievances or the causes behind their attacks, often pointing to western foreign policy issues, such as the invasions and interference in the […]
The Muslim Debate Initiative 